gnome is dead (kind of) since 2/1/2006 updates

[Bill Nottingham]

Brian Millett (bmillett at gmail.com) said: 
> I need some good advice on how to debug this problem.
> I have yum updated rawhide today (2/2/2006) on a x86 toshiba laptop and I
> still have a kind of broken gnome that broke 2/1/2006.
> 
> What I mean is that as my current user, I try to startx from runlevel 3 and
> it goes for a while and then dies and I am back at the command prompt.  I
> can add a new user and login as that user and can startx just fine as a new
> virgin user.  But from my old user, gnome will not start.
> 
> I do not have any error messages in /var/log/messages nor
> /var/log/Xorg.0.log nor any where else that I can think of.
> 
> How do I debug this?  Can X be started in a verbose debug mode?
> 
> I'd like to file a bugzilla, but on what?  System is hosed is not a menu
> item, nor very helpful.

What happens if you remove ~/.fonts.cache-2?

Bill